Improper Input Validation Affecting chicken package, versions <4.8.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-CHICKEN-324450
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed31 Oct 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2012-6123  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 chicken to version 4.8.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chicken package and not the chicken package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."

CVSS Scores

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